Surattha is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was synonymized with Prionapteryx by StanisÃ
Âaw BÃ
ÂeszyÃ
Âski in 1967. Its status was later revised by Graziano Bassi and Wolfram Mey in 2011.
Description
Its palpi are porrect (extending forward) and thickly scaled, extending about one and half times length of head. Maxillary palp triangularly scaled. Frons with a conical process. Antennae of male bipectinated, usually with long branches. Tibia with long spurs, where the outer spurs about two-thirds the length of the inner. Forewings long and narrow, with rounded apex. Vein 3 from near angle of cell and veins 4 and 5 usually on a long stalk. Veins 6, 7, 10 and 11 free. Hindwings with vein 3 from near angle of cell and vein 5 absent. Vein 6 obsolescent from above middle of discocellulars and vein 7 anastomosing (fusing) with vein 8.
Species
- Surattha africalis <small>(Hampson, 1919)</small>
- Surattha albipunctella <small>Marion, 1957</small>
- Surattha albistigma <small>Wileman & South, 1918</small>
- Surattha albostigmata <small>Rothschild, 1921</small>
- Surattha amselella <small>BÃ
ÂeszyÃ
Âski, 1965</small>
- Surattha carmensita <small>(BÃ
ÂeszyÃ
Âski, 1970)</small>
- Surattha diffusilinea <small>Hampson, 1919</small>
- Surattha fuscilella <small>Swinhoe, 1895</small>
- Surattha invectalis <small>Walker, 1863</small>
- Surattha luteola <small>Bassi & Mey in Mey, 2011</small>
- Surattha margherita <small>BÃ
ÂeszyÃ
Âski, 1965</small>
- Surattha nigrifascialis <small>(Walker, 1866)</small>
- Surattha obeliscota <small>Meyrick, 1936</small>
- Surattha rufistrigalis <small>Fawcett, 1918</small>
- Surattha soudanensis <small>Hampson, 1919</small>
- Surattha strioliger <small>Rothschild, 1913</small>
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